Comments on: Jeremy Lin and the Challenges Facing Asian American Athletes

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By: kettch

kettch — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:02:52 +0000

chzzba wrote:

I’m going to say something politically incorrect: Asians don’t have the genes to play basketball, they don’t have the height, the fast twitch muscles to make it to the big time basketball league like NBA. Jeremy Lin might be an exception so is Yao Ming.

That’s because American born Asians have it easy. Try playing against native-born Filipinos, who honed their skills playing on concrete or dirt courts while playing barefoot or in flip-flops. They may not be as tall or jump as high, but they’ve got incredible ballhandling skills and can change directions like a deflating balloon.

By: Jeremy Lin Asian American Student Athlete Leads Harvard To A Major Upset Over (17) Boston College | Chinese or Japanese

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:00:50 +0000

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By: Ernie

Ernie — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:23:15 +0000

Looks like Jeremy Lin had a record night last night against Boston College and was on a couple of papers today. Guest blogger Phil wrote a piece, which will be published in a couple of hours.

By: chzzba

chzzba — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:05:50 +0000

By: CaliStunna818

CaliStunna818 — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:04:45 +0000

Well there are players suited for the dunk contest, and there are players who are suited for in game dunking.

Probably the most recent player who was known for his dunking rather than his game was James White.

However, some of these dunkers have great athleticism to begin with. It’s more than just dunking, which includes…speed…first step….vertical…all things that can help a player in basketball.

Lebron James, Wade, Vince Carter, Josh Smith, T-mac all have great athleticism and are high flyers.

Even other rising stars such as Brandon Roy and Chris Paul may not be great in game dunkers or be joining the dunk contest anytime soon, but both have great athleticism which includes the vertical.

By: jun

jun — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:40:43 +0000

First off, it important to understand that Asian-Americans live mostly in the urban, large city environments. If you look at the college recruiting they rarely recruit from urban cities and there are very few athletes that actually go pro who are from large urban areas. Its doesnt matter whether your black, white, yellow, or purple there just are very few bigtime athletes from large urban cities at the collegiate or pro levels. I dont know what the correlation is, but there one certainly exists and if someone actually does a research project on it it would be really interesting. If you take a look at the Biggest Sport stars from every major league the percentage of people from major US cities like NYC, Boston, Philadelphia, LA, and San Francisco (also cites with large Asian American populations) have very few pro players and as a result college recruiting in these cites are not that heavy, with maybe recruiting in LA being the exception.

Second, dunking is simply the most overrated aspect of basketball. The best dunkers in the NBA are usually the worst players. Just take a look at the Slam Dunk competitors from the last 5 years. Very few of them are actually all-star caliber players. Not only that look at the top 5 picks of the NBA draft from the last 5 years also. Very few high flying dunkers in that list also.